TOM TUNING (SHORT)

The following sound files explore different tunings of different sized toms.

These toms were tuned to different fundamental tones in order to explore their tuning range (comfort zone) when both heads were tuned quite far apart.

This tuning explores a custom 'short' sustain setting, aiming for melodic relationships between the tonal spacing of the lug pitches of the batter and the resonant head, and the batter lug pitch and the fundamental tone of the drum.

In this experiment the heads were tuned in a specific way: the batter head lug pitch is tuned a perfect fifth (P5) interval above the fundamental tone of the drum.

All drums have the same heads for batter heads, and the same heads for resonant heads to rule out the differences.

The 13", and 16" drums have maple shells with 45° sharp bearing edges.